East bound and down

I’m headed for Palm Beach this morning and a meeting with broadcasters, so blogging will be sporadic the rest of the week. I didn’t want to leave, however, without pointing to this wonderful essay by Henry Copeland, founder of Blogads. Long a cheerleader for blogging, Henry really nails it by deconstructing the phrase “Consumer Generated Media” and calling for a new name.

But the label of CGM misses the vitality that people experience as they engage with each other publicly and in real time. Calling blogs consumer-generated media is like calling sex the “clothless generation of heat, musk and mucus.” The essential excitement and motivation just doesn’t come through, does it?

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I blog for two reasons. One, it is the greatest method ever created to challenge my own assumptions, something that I believe is necessary for anyone who wishes a seat at the discussion table... Read More…